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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
"Earthlings: Make the Connection" with Oscar-winning Actor Joaquin Phoenix - P3/6
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The images
in the following program
are very sensitive
and may be
as disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However,
we have to show the truth
about cruelty to animals.
Knowledgeable viewers,
today’s
Stop Animal Cruelty
program features our
presentation of Part 3 of
the award-winning
2005 documentary
on animal suffering
“Earthlings”
directed by vegan US
filmmaker Shaun Monson,
co-produced by
noted vegan US actresses
Persia White and
Maggie Q and narrated
by Golden Globe- and
Grammy-winning vegan
actor and artist
Joaquin Phoenix.
The film features music
by the world-famous
vegan DJ
and musician Moby
from the United States.
“Earthlings” has received
numerous honors,
including
the Proggy Award
given by the US-based
animal welfare group
People for
the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, and the Best
Documentary Award
in the Animal Advocacy
category at the International
Artivist Film Festival,
held annually
in California, USA.
The film is known
as “the vegan maker”
because it has prompted
so many people
to transition to
the compassionate
and life-affirming
plant-based diet.
Such individuals include
the Emmy award-winning
US talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres
as well as the well-known
Canadian professional
ice hockey player
George Laraque.
Last week on Part 2
of “Earthlings” we heard
from Joaquin Phoenix
on the horrific suffering
of animals raised for food,
in particular the noble
and sensitive cow
and our intelligent friend
the pig.
Staying on the topic
of the abuse and
violent slaughter
of animals raised for meat,
Part 3 examines the lives
of our avian and marine
animal co-inhabitants.
Before we begin, let us
hear from Persia White
as to why “Earthlings”
is such an important,
must-see documentary.
I recommend everyone
to take a moment
to watch “Earthlings.”
I can't say enough
good things about it.
It’s changed
more people's lives
then any piece of media
that I’ve ever come across
in over 20 years
of being a vegetarian.
And there's books,
there's data, there's talking
but there's nothing
more beautiful than
when you have the power
to weave together images
with words
and communication
and let people know that
this is just information
you should know,
regardless of whether
you are a vegetarian or
whether you are thinking
about it or whether
you never wanted to be.
You should at least know
what you're doing and
what you're contributing to
when you do participate
in some of
these industries
unknowingly, because
most of us don't know.
And it's all about informing
and provoking people
to think.
Even if they don't change
immediately, sometimes a
seed can be buried just
from knowing something,
and then at the time
when it's ripe it blooms
and you become changed.
So I recommend it
to everybody
to help the planet
be a better place.
It's definitely
worth watching.
We now present Part 3
of the documentary
“Earthlings.”
POULTRY
Americans currently
consume as much chicken
in a single day as they did
in an entire year in 1930.
The largest broiler
companies in the world
now slaughter more than
8.5 million birds
in a single week.
debeaking
Debeaking prevents
feather-pecking
and cannibalism
in frustrated chickens,
caused by overcrowding
in single areas,
where they are unable to
establish a social order.
Today,
done with infant chicks,
the procedure is
carried out very quickly,
about 15 birds a minute.
Such haste means
the temperature
and sharpness
of the blade varies,
resulting in sloppy cutting
and serious injury
to the bird.
living conditions
As for their
living conditions,
anywhere from 60,000
to 90,000 birds
can be crowded together
in a single building.
The suffering
for these animals
is unrelenting.
It is a way of life.
Although their beaks
are severed, they attempt
to peck each other.
For hens, they live
in a laying warehouse,
crammed inside
so-called "battery cages."
Many lose their feathers
and develop sores
from rubbing
against the wire cage.
Crowding prevents them
from spreading their wings,
and the hens
cannot even fulfill
minimal natural instincts.
transportation
During transportation,
all animals suffer,
and many die.
And they suffocate
when other animals pile
on top of them
in overcrowded,
poorly loaded cages.
slaughter
Chickens and turkeys
are slaughtered
in numerous ways.
Some may be clubbed
to death or
have their heads cut off.
But most are brought
through the assembly lines
of factory farms.
Dangled upside down
on a conveyor belt,
their throats are slit......
and they are left
to bleed to death.
Others may be placed
head-first in tubes
to restrict their movement
while they slowly bleed
to death.
Surely, if slaughterhouses
had glass walls,
would not all of us
be vegetarians?
But slaughterhouses
do not have glass walls.
The architecture
of slaughter is opaque,
designed in the interest
of denial, to insure
that we will not see
even if we wanted to look.
And who wants to look?
Let's go!
Don't stop.
Let's go, let's go!
Come on!
It was Emerson
who observed,
more than 100 years ago:
"You have dined, and
however scrupulously
the slaughterhouse
is concealed
in the graceful distance
of miles,
there is complicity."
When we return
we’ll continue
with our presentation
of “Earthlings.”
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
This is Stop Animal Cruelty
on Supreme Master
Television.
We now resume
our presentation
of the documentary
“Earthlings”
that was directed by
Shaun Monson
and narrated by
Golden Globe
and Grammy winner
Joaquin Phoenix.
seafood
And for those who think
eating seafood is healthier
than land animals,
just remember how much
irretrievable waste and
contaminated sediments
are dumped into our oceans.
In the past, oil, nuclear,
and chemical industries
have done little
for the protection
of marine environments,
and dumping on
or under the seabed
has always proved
a convenient place
to dispose
of inconvenient wastes.
commercial fishing
Today's commercial fishers
intensify this situation
on massive scales.
They use
vast factory trawlers
the size of football fields
and advanced
electronic equipment
to track and catch fish.
Huge nets stretch
across the ocean,
swallowing up everything
in their path.
These factory trawlers,
coupled with
our increased appetites
for seafood, are emptying
the oceans of sea life
at an alarming pace.
Already, 13 of the 17
major global fisheries
are depleted
or in serious decline.
The other four
are overexploited
or fully exploited.
disease
The recent outbreak
of Pfiesteria,
a microorganism
1,000 times more potent
than cyanide, spawned
from millions of gallons
of raw hog feces and urine,
poured into rivers, lakes,
and oceans,
turning their ecosystems
into unflushed toilets,
is proving
the most alarming.
Threatening sea life
and humans alike,
Pfiesteria has killed
over one billion fish,
the Southeast's largest fish
kill on record.
And it's spreading.
Traces of Pfiesteria
have already been found
from Long Island
to the Florida Gulf,
at distances
of up to 1,000 miles.
In fact, this water-based
Pfiesteria invasion
stands as one of
the worst outbreaks of
a virulent microorganism
in U.S. history.
It is a Level 3 Biohazard.
Ebola is a 4.
AIDS is a 2.
And this bug mutated
as a direct result
of our mass consumption
of animals,
particularly pork.
With hog farms
fattening millions of pigs
for slaughter,
grain goes in
and waste comes out.
This waste finds its way
into our oceans and
water-supply systems,
contaminating the animals
that live in it, as well as
those who eat from it.
whaling
Finally, whaling.
Though the International
Whaling Commission
prohibited
commercial whaling
in 1985, many countries
continue to kill whales
for their so-called
"exotic meat."
They use harpoons......
firearms......
blunt hooks......
even explosives......
or drive them into
authorized whaling bays,
where they are made
to beach and
can be killed with knives
in the shallows.
dolphins
Every winter,
between the months of
October through March,
thousands of dolphins
are confined
and brutally killed in
small towns across Japan.
Sounding rods
beneath the water's surface
interfere with
the dolphin's sonar.
Once disoriented and
enclosed within the nets,
the dolphins panic.
Fisherman often injure
a few captive dolphins
with a spear thrust
or knife slash, since
dolphins never abandon
wounded family members.
Mothers and babies
call out in distress
as they are separated,
hoisted up, and dragged off,
soon to be mercilessly
hacked to death.
These are benign
and innocent beings.
And they deserve better.
Yet here, as they lay
stricken and needful,
writhing helplessly
on cement floors,
they are cut open
with machetes...... and
left to slowly suffocate.
Convulsing and
contorting in the throes
of agony, while
schoolchildren walk on by.
Dolphin meat
is later sold in markets
and restaurants,
though often mislabeled
as "whale meat."
But as though cruelty toward
animals raised for food
wasn't enough,
we've also found ways
of making use of them
for all our clothes.
Jackets, shoes, belts,
gloves, pants, wallets,
purses, and so on.
The next question is
obviously, "Where do
our clothes come from?"
In an interview
with Supreme Master
Television,
director Shaun Monson
shared his experiences
of visiting a factory farm
in India.
I was in India last year,
shooting for
this new documentary
I’m working on now,
which is a follow up
to Earthling, and
they do debeaking there
with the chickens,
as we do here.
Debeaking which you see
in the film, which is,
because chickens
have a social order,
like humans do.
You put too many humans
in too tight of a space,
too close together,
someone is probably going
to push somebody else
after a few minutes,
or longer.
But in any case,
we have a social order,
and animals do too.
And so the chickens,
you know when you put
five hens in a battery cage
that’s about
the size of our chair,
right here, they fight.
So, what happens is they,
instead of giving them
more space, which is
the most logical solution,
is that they sever the beaks
so that they can’t peck
each other.
And they do this
with a hot iron,
so they press the beak
against this hot iron.
And they do this
when they’re chicks,
they do this
when they’re quite young.
And I thought this was
horrific to see this
in America,
and when I was in India,
I saw it in India as well.
It was more crude in India,
but still hot iron, you know,
searing down the beak.
It was,
fundamentally the same.
Finally,
here are two students
with a message
for Mr. Monson
after they watched
a screening of “Earthlings”
at Chaffey College
in California, USA
Keep doing
what you’re doing.
Because I think
people are becoming
more conscious
and more self-aware
of what they’re eating.
I just want to say
thank you so much
for doing this, because
it’s opened the eyes
of a lot of people,
and definitely me.
I just really hope
you can get it out
on public television and
things like that, and just
get it on DVD to people,
and it’s more worldwide
so people can open
their eyes.
We would like to thank
director Shaun Monson
and the others
involved in its production
for allowing us to air this
moving documentary.
May we all soon
adopt the loving,
organic vegan diet
so our animal friends
can always live
in peace and happiness.
"Earthlings" may be
viewed online at
www.Earthlings.com
The "Earthlings" DVD
is available
at the same website.
Thank you for joining us
for today’s program.
Please watch Part 4 of
our six part presentation
of “Earthlings”
next Tuesday
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May we all soon realize
our inherent unity
with all beings and
always show compassion
to our animal brothers
and sisters.
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